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- The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
- Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
- I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something…
- I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.…
- Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too…
- I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
- The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they…
- In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies…
- Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and…
- Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
- Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to…
- What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
- Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your…
- Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
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